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The men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol guarding the Southern land border come into constant contact with drug and human smugglers, criminals and migrants. Every so often, they even encounter Mexican military personnel making unauthorized incursions across the border into the United States. The most recent Mexican military incursion occurred last week on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation in Arizona. According to reports, the Mexican soldiers crossed the border in a military vehicle and held a Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before escaping back to Mexico. While the agent who was temporarily detained by the Mexican soldiers was...

What's worse, the cartels have now forged alliances with American street gangs, giving these drug cartels a deep reach into American life and through that alliance with our gangs that gives them control over most of the $300 to $500 billion American drug trade, the largest in the world. These cartels have become a global crime corporation with an international reach of illegal franchises spanning the world. The ability of these Mexican drug cartels to operate with complete disregard for the law on both sides of the border – trafficking in drugs, weapons, humans, terrorists, prostitution, and money laundering is...

Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI. Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department. Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border -- near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso -- when Border Patrol agents called for...

State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent distribute cocaine, federal and state authorities said at a news conference at SLED headquarters this afternoon. According to the indictment, beginning in 2005 — before he was elected state treasurer — Ravenel conspired with Michael L. Miller to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. If convicted, Ravenel faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million. The Charleston Republican raised millions of dollars to unseat long-term Democratic incumbent Grady Patterson in November. He...

Everyone in Amado, Arivaca and other small communities south of Green Valley agrees that something must be done to stem the smuggling of illegal immigrants and drugs through the area. But most think it should be done closer to the U.S.-Mexico border — not 30 miles to the north, where the Border Patrol has proposed building a permanent checkpoint on Interstate 19. "There's this feeling that if you're against the checkpoint, you're against the Border Patrol," said Stewart Loew, a lifelong resident who manages his family's Agua Linda Farm near Amado. "That's not true. They have a very difficult job...

It seems the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, overseen by Johnny Sutton from his throne in San Antonio, has a PR problem when it comes to dealing with drug smugglers. In the high-profile case of the two Border Patrol agents in Texas who are now serving long prison terms for shooting a drug smuggler in the rear end, conservative media outlets are proclaiming that Sutton’s office showed special favor to the smuggler in order to ruin the lives of the agents. Likewise, in the House of Death mass murder case, an informant was shown special consideration...

Family members of agent Ignacio Ramos, California Minutemen and Arizona bikers protested in front of the federal courthouse Wednesday afternoon. In Washington, D.C., Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, released a vitriolic statement chastising President Bush for not pardoning the agents. And the U.S. Attorney's Office retaliated, issuing a lengthy list of what it described as "myths" surrounding the case, which has become a cause celebre among conservative activists. Former agents Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean surrendered at 1:30 p.m. to the U.S. Marshal's office inside the federal courthouse in downtown El Paso, officials said. They were handcuffed and will be...

*** NOTE*** Take your blood pressure medication before viewing this report... McCaul Releases Report on Border Violence (Tuesday, October 17, 2006) Today, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (TX), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations, released a report on border violence in the Southwest. The report examines the alarming rise in the level of criminal cartel activity, including drug and human smuggling, along the Texas-Mexico border and its effects on Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies. The report also looks at what steps are being taken to counter the threat, and the significance of these issues pertaining...

LA VILLA, Texas - A former police officer about to face trial on drug charges and five alleged members of a violent drug gang escaped from a privately run federal jail near the Mexican border by overpowering a guard and cutting through at least four fences, officials said Wednesday. More than 60 local and federal law-enforcement officers using helicopters and bloodhounds were searching near the East Hidalgo Detention Center, a facility owned by a Lafayette, La., company about 20 miles north of the border. A four square-mile security perimeter was set up around the area during the initial investigation but...

Illegal marijuana production is surging on the North Coast and across the state as a result of rising dominance of Mexican crime families over the state's underground pot economy. Scores of Mexican nationals are being sneaked across the border to grow, guard and harvest marijuana gardens inside California because tightened border security has crimped smuggling of Mexican-grown pot into the state, according to local, state and federal drug agents. Mexican-controlled operations now account for as much as 70 percent of all the marijuana cultivated in the state's rural regions, including the North Coast, the agents said. Agents say tightened U.S.-Mexican...

EL PASO, Texas - The union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents has set up a legal defense fund for two agents convicted earlier this year of wounding a suspected drug smuggler and then trying to cover up the shooting. The National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents nearly all Border Patrol agents, launched the fund this week to help former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean pay for an appeal and provide some money for their families. The men were suspended without pay after their 2005 arrests and fired after a federal jury convicted them in March. Union...

Nearly two week ago, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested hard-line Communist Raul Castro really did have a soft spot for capitalism. “Raul has been in charge of the military and the economy,” Mitchell explained to the August 2 “Today” show audience, calling Fidel’s younger brother “politically hard-line but more open than his brother to free enterprise, including foreign investment.” She might be on to something, after all. “Federal prosecutors in Miami were prepared to indict Raul Castro as the head of a major cocaine smuggling conspiracy in 1993, but the Clinton Administration Justice Department overruled them, current and former Justice Department...

Dug by hand with the help of rogue mining engineers to link warehouses on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border, it was the longest, deepest and boldest drug smuggling tunnel found to date. But before the Mexican gang had even punched through a concrete floor to emerge opposite a washroom in a distribution depot in Otay Mesa, California, a crack law enforcement team with expertise honed in the hunt for Osama bin Laden was on their trail. Little known outside police circles, the Tunnel Task Force came to light with the January 24 discovery of the passageway that was used...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she signed an executive order to expand the Arizona National Guard's presence at the state's porous border with Mexico to support federal efforts to combat undocumented immigration and other border problems. The governor also said she would veto a bill in the Legislature requiring her to send troops to the border, but wants lawmakers to pass a proposal to pay for the expanded National Guard role. She said the Legislature's pending bill requiring additional deployment as a result of her declaration last summer of an immigration emergency in four border counties...

More than a ton of marijuana valued at more than $1.6 million was found near Jacumba after smugglers abandoned two vehicles at the border, according to federal officials. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was patrolling O'Neil Valley less than a mile from the border around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday when he spotted a pair of SUVs traveling along a road, said Agent Kurstan Rosberg. The drivers turned around and went back to the border, where they abandoned the SUVs and climbed over a 4-foot-high vehicle barrier and escaped, Rosberg said. Agents found 2,055 pounds of marijuana in 102 bundles,...

WASHINGTON - A south Texas rancher, Texas sheriffs, an Arizona district attorney and other law enforcement representatives urged Senate committee members Wednesday to heed their warning: The porous southern border of the United States is a national security risk. Witnesses told Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship subcommittee, at a hearing on border violence that without cooperation from Mexico, combined with federal support from the United States, the situation at the border will continue to deteriorate. Cornyn focused the hearing on recent reports of Mexican military incursions into the United States, increasing border violence...

Traffickers find a perfect cover in legitimate cargo passing through NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - The five bridges spanning the green waters of the Rio Grande bustle with more than 21,000 cars, trucks and buses every day. This border town — and its American sister city across the river — see more than $100 billion in commerce rumble through every year. They're known as "Los Dos Laredos," and few dispute the towns are one of the great NAFTA success stories. But U.S. drug agents say that free trade with Mexico has had an ugly and unintended consequence: Just as legitimate business...

Mexican authorities on Friday announced the capture of a top Mexican drug smuggler wanted in the United States for cocaine trafficking and money laundering and who was included among the 40 most-wanted fugitives in the world. Oscar Arriola Marquez, leader of the Arriola Marquez cartel, was arrested on Thursday in the northern state of Coahuila, one of three states where the organization is based, Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said. “He is one of the drug traffickers most sought after in the United States” and among the 40 most-wanted fugitives in the world, Cabeza de Vaca said. Mexican authorities...

The U.S. Border Patrol has warned agents in Arizona of incursions into the United States by Mexican soldiers "trained to escape, evade and counterambush" if detected -- a scenario Mexico denied yesterday. The warning to Border Patrol agents in Tucson, Ariz., comes after increased sightings of what authorities described as heavily armed Mexican military units on the U.S. side of the border. The warning asks the agents to report the size, activity, location, time and equipment of any units observed. It also cautions agents to keep "a low profile," to use "cover and concealment" in approaching the Mexican units, to...

Police in Colombia say they have found a half-built submarine in a warehouse in a suburb of the capital Bogota (2,250 metres (7,500 ft) above sea level,). Police chief General Luis Ernesto Gilibert said Russian documents were found alongside the partially-completed vessel. He said the 30 metre (100ft) vessel would have been capable of carrying huge quantities of cocaine or heroin. He speculated that, once completed, the submarine would have been disassembled and taken by lorry to to Colombia’s Pacific or Caribbean coast. When police raided the warehouse in the suburb of Facatativa they found the building equipped with closed-circuit...

NEWARK - Nearly four dozen leaders and associates of an international criminal enterprise have been charged in six indictments - forty-three of them were arrested over the weekend in New Jersey and other states - with running a smuggling ring that brought large quantities of counterfeit cigarettes, millions of dollars in high-quality counterfeit U.S. currency and drugs into the United States through Port Newark and other domestic ports, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. The indictments, including three racketeering indictments, charge 57 individuals. Of those, several were arrested beginning on Friday as they arrived in Atlantic City to attend a...

    MOSCOW, July 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin told the country's military and law enforcement officers Wednesdayto take preemptive actions in fighting terrorism, which he said remains a major threat to the world.     "Your activities in this area should be preemptive in nature," Putin told top military, law enforcement and security officers at a meeting in the Kremlin, the Interfax news agency reported.     "We perfectly understand how serious the tasks are that face Russia's law enforcement and security agencies," primarily police and interior forces, Putin said.     The recent attacks in London, Egypt and in Russia's Caucasus region show...

LYNDEN, Wash. – Two federal sources have confirmed that a massive secret tunnel connecting the U.S. with Canada has been discovered in the Whatcom County town of Lynden, Wash. It is believed that it is used to transport drugs, but it could also be related to Homeland Security issues. Some arrests have been made. A press conference is scheduled for Thursday morning. ___________________________________________________ This was on the 5:00 news. Lynden is just east of Blaine WA, the major border crossing between Washington and British Columbia. The reporter mentioned that her information was coming from U.S. Attorney's office. The mention of...

U.S. authorities unearth smuggling tunnel under B.C. border SEATTLE (AP) - U.S. government agents have shut down a drug-smuggling tunnel built under the Canadian border near Lynden, Wash., a government source said Wednesday. Authorities had been monitoring construction of the tunnel for eight months and sealed it Wednesday, shortly after it opened, making three to five arrests in the process, said the source, a government employee who had been briefed by local law-enforcement officials. The exact length of the tunnel was not known. It ran from a building on the Canadian side to a house on the U.S. side, 90...

Saying that it needs more time to prepare volunteers, a Chino group planning citizen patrols at the Mexican border near San Diego this summer has rescheduled the launch date for Sept. 16, Mexican Independence Day. Border Watch organizer Andy Ramirez said he has received more than 700 applications and wants to make sure volunteers are properly trained and equipped before beginning the patrols, originally planned for Aug. 1. "There are a lot of logistics involved," said Ramirez, whose grandfather was a Mexican immigrant. Border Watch is modeled after the Minuteman Project, which drew hundreds of citizens to Arizona in April...

Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says a draft prisoner exchange accord has been drawn up and presented to Indonesia. On Friday, an Indonesian court found Australian woman Schappelle Corby guilty of smuggling more than four-kilograms of marijuana into Bali last year, sentencing her to 20-years in jail. It's a case that's generated intense media and public interest in Australia. Mr Downer has told the American television network CNN that a team will be travelling to Indonesia soon to discuss a possible prisoner exchange deal "We've sent a draft text to the Indonesians which covers all prisoners, it's not specific to...

CHAPELLE Corby is suffering cruel abuse and racial taunts in jail as Indonesian authorities move to keep her in prison for life. The Indonesian Government yesterday backed the prosecution bid to toughen Corby's 20-year jail sentence for smuggling 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali's airport last October. "The 20 years in jail handed down by the Denpasar District Court is too light," Indonesian Attorney-General Abdul Rahman Sale told the Bali Post newspaper. "She deserves to be sentenced to life." As the reality of the marathon jail term sank in, Corby, 27, issued a heartfelt thank you to the nation....

Here's a wonderful little tidbit from Indonesia: Fury at Bali drugs verdict: (CNN) -- Many Australians reacted with anger and shock after a Queensland woman they believe is innocent was found guilty of smuggling drugs into Bali and sentenced to 20 years' jail. On Friday Indonesian judges found Schapelle Corby "legally and convincingly" guilty of smuggling marijuana into Bali in a case that has generated unprecedented interest among Australians and a diplomatic balancing act for the nation's leader. ... The case has galvanized public opinion in Australia, with a recent survey showing 90 percent thought Corby was innocent, believing her...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 27 - A drug smuggling case that has captivated and outraged Australia came to a climax on Friday when a 27-year-old Australian woman was given a 20-year prison term for trying to bring nine pounds of marijuana into Bali hidden in her bodyboard bag.

BALI, Indonesia - An Australian woman was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for smuggling nine pounds of marijuana onto Indonesia's Bali island, prompting her mother to shout "Liar!" at the judge and her nation's prime minister to express sympathy. Schapelle Corby, 27, wept as the verdict was announced in a case. She could have faced the death penalty, but prosecutors requested a life sentence. Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, yelled out, "Liar! Liar!" and had to be restrained in the front row of the courtroom gallery. Other relatives shouted, "We are going to get you home! We...

NORTH ARABIAN SEA –A coalition effort involving ships from Commander Task Force (CTF) 150, under the Coalition Forces Maritime Component Command, led to the seizure of more than 4,200 pounds of hashish here in international waters May 20. Guided missile frigate USS Kauffman (FFG 59) had been tracking the motor vessel Al Naveed before boarding the vessel. The boarding team discovered the drugs hidden behind a false bulkhead. Kauffman is deployed in the region to conduct maritime security operations (MSO). MSO set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment as well as complement the counter-terrorism and security...

Bogus bananas used to ship cocaine Fri May 27,11:12 AM ET MIAMI (Reuters) - Customs agents inspecting a shipment of plantains thought some of the green bananas seemed unusually hard and cut them open, finding more than 750 pounds of cocaine stuffed inside what turned out to be phony fruit. Smugglers molded the plantains out of glass fiber, filled them with cocaine and painted them to look like the real fruit, a large, green member of the banana family popular in the Caribbean and Latin America, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said on Thursday. The culprits painstakingly scattered the...

Indonesian Court Finds Australian Guilty in Drug Case BY CHRIS BRUMMITT, AP BALI, Indonesia (May 27) -- An Australian woman was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for smuggling nine pounds of marijuana onto Indonesia's Bali island, prompting her mother to shout ''Liar!'' at the judge and her nation's prime minister to express sympathy. Schapelle Corby, 27, wept as the verdict was announced in a case. She could have faced the death penalty, but prosecutors requested a life sentence. Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, yelled out, ''Liar! Liar!'' and had to be restrained in the front row of...

An Indonesian court has found Australian woman Schapelle Corby guilty of smuggling drugs into Bali and sentenced her to 20 years in jail. Corby's family said she would appeal against the verdict, which could have seen her sentenced to death. Corby, 27, said her luggage had been tampered with, after she was arrested last October with 4.1kg (9lbs) of marijuana in her bags at Bali airport. Her case has stirred widespread public sympathy in Australia. Corby fought back tears and there were screams from her supporters in court, as the verdict and sentence were announced. "Judges are of the opinion...

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- An Australian prisoner who gave evidence at accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's trial in Bali has been bashed and stabbed in jail. The incident comes as Indonesian prosectors wrapped up their case Thursday against the 27-year old Australian beautician, arguing they had presented enough evidence to convict her of smuggling 4.1 kilograms of cannabis onto the tourist island from Australia. John Patrick Ford, who is on remand in a Victorian jail, awaiting trial on rape and aggravated burglary charges, told the court in March that he heard a prisoner say the drugs were placed in Corby's...

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- An Australian prisoner who gave evidence at accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's trial in Bali has been bashed and stabbed in jail. The incident comes as Indonesian prosectors wrapped up their case Thursday against the 27-year old Australian beautician, arguing they had presented enough evidence to convict her of smuggling 4.1 kilograms of cannabis onto the tourist island from Australia. John Patrick Ford, who is on remand in a Victorian jail, awaiting trial on rape and aggravated burglary charges, told the court in March that he heard a prisoner say the drugs were placed in Corby's...

4/14/2005 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- Two Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing have been charged with importing narcotics from Germany to the United States after being arrested April 12 on federal narcotics charges, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the southern district of New York. Capt. Franklin Rodriguez, a C-5 Galaxy pilot, and Master Sgt. John Fong, a C-5 loadmaster, were found with 28 large bags officials believed to contain about 290,000 pills of Ecstasy in their luggage upon return from an overseas mission April 12. The Airmen are charged...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Although reshaping U.S. immigration law is a priority of President Bush's second term, his proposal for a guestworker program wasn't on the table as the Republican-controlled House took up an immigration bill this week. Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, sponsor of the bill scheduled for a vote Thursday, said his legislation deals with border security. Including Bush's guestworker proposal or other measures would muddy the debate and mark all immigrants as terrorists, he said. "I think they are two separate issues. The immigration question is something the Judiciary Committee will handle later on,"

The National ID card is back in the news, as Congress is getting set once again to debate the issue. You will remember that late last year, Congress passed (and the President signed) legislation which starts us down the road to a National ID card. In the name of preventing alien terrorists from operating in this country, the so-called Intelligence Reform bill gave federal bureaucrats unprecedented new powers to force changes in state-issued driver's licenses -- including, possibly, the addition of computer chip technology that can facilitate the tracking of all U.S. citizens. Now, the House will be debating new...

H.R.418 is a measure before the House that will strictly control use of drivers'licences by illegal aliens and Grsssfire has sent a petition with over 110,000 signatures to Congress urging their support. They also gave a phone number,202-224-3121, by which one can contact one's representative in DC. To my amazement I delivered my message to my congressman's office in less than two minutes! Everyone concerned about illegals and the threat some potentially pose to national security should become involved!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader, said Tuesday that conservatives might be able to compromise with President Bush on his proposal allowing illegal immigrants to work in the United States legally. Such a compromise could entail, for example, requiring illegal immigrants to return to their native countries to apply for the program, Mr. DeLay said. Advertisement Mr. DeLay said he talked recently with the president, who has advocated a guest worker program that would be open to workers who are currently in the country illegally as well as to newcomers.

FEBRUARY 7, 2005 - Action 4 News undercover cameras catch Border Patrol agents dropping off illegal immigrants at a local bus station by the van load. How do we know the immigrants are not possible terrorists? You'll soon find out we don't! Could this be a sign of border breakdown? New Year's Eve morning agents pull up to the Valley Transit bus station in Harlingen, open the back of their van and a hand full of illegal immigrants jump out. But that's just the beginning, six days later more illegal immigrants were set free, free to travel anywhere they want...

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) -- Peruvian police say they have seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States. The drugs were covered in pepper to divert sniffer dogs and sealed in several layers of plastic and other wrappers, Peruvian police said on Monday.

/begin my translationJapanese mag. Aera: In N. Korea, Kim Jong-chol To Be The Successor "We are instructed to put comrade (Kim) Jong-chol into 6-month training at Advanced Party Academy after he finishes his internship at Organization Guidance Dept. of the Party." While it has been confirmed that Ko Yong-hee(age:51), a wife of N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il, died of heart failure on the dawn of Aug. 13, (Japanese) weekly news magazine Aera, published by Asahi Shimbun(a major Japanese daily,) reported on its latest edition(dated Sept. 6) that it had obtained (N. Korean internal) documents which indicate that Kim Jong-il's...

Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

NORTH Korea's legal exports, which range from exotic mushrooms to ballistic missiles, are estimated to be worth US$1 billion (S$1.7 billion) a year. But its annual imports are worth about twice that amount. How does it cover the shortfall and pay for its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction? Evidence from a number of sources, including Asian and Western officials as well as defectors from North Korea, suggests that Pyongyang earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year through criminal enterprise, such as gold smuggling, the distribution of counterfeit United States currency, and even the illegal sale of endangered...

Americans in gun sites of Mexican army Posted: March 13, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: John Dougherty's recent book, "Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border," is available at WorldNetDaily's online store. © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com You'd think frequent gun battles along the U.S.-Mexico border between federal agents and citizen border-monitoring groups on this side, and drug and people smugglers on the other side, would make the national headlines. If you thought that, you'd be mistaken. Just ask Chris Simcox, owner of the Tombstone (Ariz.) Tumbleweed newspaper, and head of one such border group. He's trying to...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia was beheaded today, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Fadl Mulla Nur Mohammed's execution was carried out in Riyadh, the capital, and brought the total number of beheadings this year to 45. Last year, at least 49 people were beheaded. The Interior Ministry statement did not say when Mohammed was arrested nor convicted. Drugs like heroin regularly enter Saudi Arabia from Pakistan, which lies on a route for smuggling narcotics to the Middle East and Europe. Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under...

/start my translation A close confidant of Kim Jong-Il defects to U.S. /snip Kil Jae-Gyung, a close confidant of the General Secretary of N. Korean Worker's Party, Kim Jong-Il, defected to U.S. recently. His position is a deputy depratment chief of General Secretariat's Clerk's Office, the S. Korean equivalent of the Office of Presidential Secretaries. A diplomatic source in Seoul disclosed on 17th (of May, 2003), "Deputy Department Chief Kil Jae-Gyung and two others requested a political asylum to U.S. while staying at a third country. They are now at a safe location." The source added, "We cannot disclose their...

<p>Jan. 9 Border Patrol agents from Nogales arrested a Mexican national with a .32-caliber semiautomatic handgun at a traffic checkpoint.</p> <p>Jan. 10 Border Patrol agents from Nogales arrested a Mexican national with a loaded .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun in his waistband.</p>